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. UNITED JONAS EMIn LQMEN, ora ANpiNe, :NEW JERSEY, JASSIGNOR To rHnf BLoMENI'rE MANUFAGTQR NG COMPANY, OF NE Y RK, 1 -'I. Y.

l I l I METHOD OE MAKIN'G- ems-True 'QOMPOUNDS.

srncmtca'rron forming paz tr'ofetters'imteap "N 49!},178, dated April .1. 1, was.

A plicants! January 28, 1892. saa1no.419.5 (Nospeoimena) atll'wham it mdy northern: g

F. Bent known that 1,, EMIL BLOMEN, of

1 Landing, in the coufitybfiMom-is and Sta'te i of. New J ersey, havxlinvented a new and use'-' 5' 111 Improvement in ethod s'of Making Blftst. 'ing Compounds, of which-"the following-ism. specification. a 1

v t Mgr-[invention re 'tesltolaii improveme'ntin making blasting ompoq'nds wit 1i a vi Ja ina-easing their e x plosi'vepower and reglgging the cost of production-L The invention consists in dissolvingrpicric aci'df'and a hydrocarbon in alcohol in separate vessels, mixingthe twp solution together .15 and. thereby precipitating picrated. ydrocar-.

ban and finally dissolving? the pipra'ting hydrocarbon' i n n'itro-glycerine. 1 "In practice equal quantities of picricacid 20 alcohol. Thetwosolutions mayithen bemixed,

and the picrated naphthalene,

. eohol, will be precipitated. The picrat ed naph-j' and of naphthalene may beAlissolved'in hot -insolubleinaltha.lene may then be (dissolved, i'n-nitro glyeerine, and the solution, picrated nitro glycerine; will ,be found to be an explosive liquidbelieved to possess higher power than nitr'o glycerine and possessing thezsamesolvent properties. i' s Whi1e' I'havespecified' naphthalene as the preiigrred hydrocarbon,'other forms, such for 30 exaf pie as benzole and toluloltmight be emi hat-I claim is,-

- The method of forming ablasting compound consisting in first dissolving picric acid and 35' a. hydrocarbon separately, then mixing the solutions, and finally dissolving the picrated hydrocarbon, resulting from the mixture, in nitroglycerin, substantially as set forth. g JONAS EMIL BLOMEN, Witnesseses: -t .FREDK. HAYNES, I. B. DECKER.- 

